The rationality of Bush hatred--and the irrationality of Bush love

[BurtWorm]

PZ Myers is best known as an aggressive defender of evolution and foe of "intelligent" design. But he's also a lefty, and here he gives an excellent defense of Bush-hatred as rational response to Bushism:

http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/comments/if_theres_a_knock_at_midnight_dont_answer_the_door_gary/


Have you noticed that I haven't been posting much about politics recently? It's not because I've become a happy Republican, or because there isn't anything interesting to write about, or because I've made a New Year's resolution to only write about blissful things—it's because lately, even the briefest contemplation of George W. Bush and his motley gang of venal, corrupt incompetents makes my brain lock up with loathing. I had to make another long round trip to the Minneapolis Airport today ('tis the season to be the family airport shuttle), and listening to MPR's report on W's self-declared respect for civil liberties was a greater risk for causing an accident than the freezing rain that was coming down all morning.

Yeah, I've got a bad case of Bush-hatred, and I don't want to hear any conservative nitwits talking about liberal irrationality. It's a well-earned hatred, the only appropriate response to the criminal boob in the White House, just as vomiting is an appropriate response to infection by influenza. Just because wingnuts have learned to suppress their gag reflex, or are simply oblivious to the toxic peril the Republicans are pushing down their throats, doesn't mean puking is the wrong reaction.

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[Barak And Roll]

1. I love his blog! nt

[leftchick]

2. I sure hope the folks in Congress understand this....

Because I am not sure they do! :argh:

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Data-mining, for those unfamiliar with it, simply put, collecting every available bit of information about you, public and that which comes up via investigation of others, accurate or inaccurate, putting it all in a massive file about you updated on a constant real-time basis, and then integrating that into a massive data-matrix that shows all perceived links between you and other people and enterprises, and then analyzes that, and then washes, rinses, and repeats, non-stop.

The second most frightening thing going on here is the revealed colloborative relationships with, apparently, all the major U.S. telecommunications providers, which has involved direct tapping into the "switches" through which all traffic flows (other than completely independent systems, which I won't detail, and only know a little about, anyway). Repeat: all (relatively and simply put) traffic.

Surely I shouldn't have to over-emphasis just how vastly more potentially totalitarian even this is, let alone the Total Information data-mining it's a part of, then mere wire-tapping. Even if they had been slapping on 5,000, or hell, 50,000, new individual taps a day (not that that would be humanly possible, of course), it would be relatively trivial compared to just how massively, wholly, totalitarian these two vastly more important issues are.


I LOVE his last line...

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It's past time to impeach the slimy little bastard and his whole sleazy administration.


Yeah Baby!

[Justitia]

3. I loathe Bush because of what he DOES. They love Bush - why???

Because he is a glorified representation of themselves? Willfully ignorant & arrogant?
He gets away with being / doing what they want to be / do ?

What he does sickens my soul, insults my intellect and poisons my general magnanimity.

I loathe him for the destruction he leaves in his wake.

Again, I ask - they love him, why????